USB Loader GX: Game starts with safety strap message, then...black screen.

[classyaf21]

So my Wii's disk drive refused to take disks so I decided to rip my games on an 128GB microSD Card to SD Adapter. The card works great, I personally know someone who went that route and the games load great. Anyways, the SD card seems to work fine. Games rip to the SD card great. Launching the games, however, would boot to the safety screen (make sure no objects are around, make sure your wrist strap is on, etc.) Then...black screen. I would wait for 2-3 minutes before turning the Wii off. I tried to do different stuff, going into the game's settings and use the Custom IOS, still nothing. Don't worry, I'm ahead of you on the SysCheck thing. Here it is:

SysCheck ME v2.5.0 by blackb0x, JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199 and Nano
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.3U (v513)

Drive date: 02.13.2007
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58

Console ID: 5218****
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: United States (49)
Boot2 v4
Found 96 titles.
Found 48 IOS on this console. 15 of them are stubs.


IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 256): Stub
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 256): Stub
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 2816): Stub
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40 (rev 3072): Stub
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 5120): Stub
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 5888): Stub
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 6400): Stub
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 6912): Stub
IOS80 (rev 6944): No Patches
IOS222 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS223 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS248[38] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v11beta1): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS249[56] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v11beta1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v11beta1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS251[58] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v11beta1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65280): Stub
BC v6
MIOS v10
Report generated on 04/04/2024.


P.S: Tried using WiiFlow as well, every time it would go back to the Wii Menu

 

[jeannotte]

recommend ==> do you use "wii backup manager" to manage your games and place them on your SD with this utility?

do you use the same version of your games depending on the version of your wii?

Is it just one game or several?

 

[classyaf21]

I rip the games right to my Wii via disk, with USB Loader GX. I have to open up the system itself and pull back a plastic mechanism for it to lock and spin.

I'm not sure how to do that.

Just got around to testing them. List of games:

Ghost Squad - Boots up fine.

Attack Of The Movies 3D - Boots up fine.

House of the Dead 2&3 - Boots up fine.

The Conduit - Boots up fine.

SMBB - Works fine

WarioWare: Smooth Moves - Seems to be the only one not working, which is weird because I ran it through an emulator on my PC and it works great on there.

 

[jeannotte]

WarioWare: Smooth Moves - Seems to be the only one not working, which is weird because I ran it through an emulator on my PC and it works great on there.

are you using the PAL or NTSC version?

with wii backup manager, you can see if your game is not corrupted, by going to "tools", select SHA1HASH, then select the chosen item.

if it's green ==>ok
if it is red ==> delete and redo the Dump (original copy)

 

[classyaf21]

are you using the PAL or NTSC version?

I am using the NTSC version. I'll try to reinstall it since it might be corrupted when I tried to install it on USB instead of SD. I learned the hard way it didn't work lol. I'll keep you posted.

 

[JuanMena]

Question: If your drive is refusing to read your physical discs, how the fuck did tou ripped your games with a broken drive?

Or am I understanding it wrong?

At this point you might as week just "rip your games with the help of another drive called Internet" if you know what I mean.

If you indeed used the drive called internet, then there's something wrong with your legally obtained games from the drive called internet.

 

[classyaf21]

Question: If your drive is refusing to read your physical discs, how the fuck did tou ripped your games with a broken drive?

Or am I understanding it wrong?

At this point you might as week just "rip your games with the help of another drive called Internet" if you know what I mean.

If you indeed used the drive called internet, then there's something wrong with your legally obtained games from the drive called internet.

My drive works, it just won't take the disks in. It would pull the disk in, stop, come out a bit then come back in, stop, before spitting the disk out entirely. It might have to be something with the gears. Like I said, I just open the system up and pull back on the plastic that is next to the gears and only then would it lock the disk down and make it spin.

 

[JuanMena]

My drive works, it just won't take the disks in. It would pull the disk in, stop, come out a bit then come back in, stop, before spitting the disk out entirely. It might have to be something with the gears. Like I said, I just open the system up and pull back on the plastic that is next to the gears and only then would it lock the disk down and make it spin.

Just forget it and rip your games from the other drive.

Make sure your SD card is a single partition, fat32 with 32k cluster size and mbr boot sector.

 

[classyaf21]

Yep, already done all that with the SD. All the other games work fine except that one, for some reason

Post automatically merged: Apr 4, 2024

So update: turns out I may have jumped the gun. Turns out it was a bad rip from when I was trying to load games from a thumb drive (kept freezing on the download when I did so, learned the hard way that thumb drives are no good). I deleted, reinstalled, and it works now. Thought it was a deeper underlying issue. I'm going to put my Wii back together, since I don't need to use the disc tray anymore. If I get any more Wii games from a store, I'll just get an external disc drive.

For those who are wondering, this is the thing I have to pull back on for the disc to lock and spin (photo for reference)